![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | How to Go Places - Handy (Jam) Organization
Actress Gale Storm and family take a road trip in their Chevrolet and review the do's and don'ts of auto traveling.
Keywords: Tourism; Travelogues; Car culture: General
Downloads: 510,768
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Great New Star, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Dinah Shore promotes the new Chevrolets and sings "See the U.S.A. in your new Chevrolet."
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 37,150
Average rating:  (10 reviews) |  |
| Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Marching Cigarettes - Handy (Jam) Organization
Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of marching cigarettes.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Substance abuse: Tobacco; Animation: Stop-motion
Downloads: 62,311
Average rating: (15 reviews) |  |
| Your Name Here - Calvin Communications
The ultimate generic industrial film, built around every script and visual cliche.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Production; Motion pictures: Sponsored; Humor
Downloads: 57,855
Average rating:  (42 reviews) |  |
| 1955 Chevrolet Screen Ads - Handy (Jam) Organization
Ten short theatrical "screen ads" promoting the 1955 Chevrolet models.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Advertising: Screen ads
Downloads: 80,854
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Square Dance - Handy (Jam) Organization
Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of square-dancing cigarettes.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Substance abuse: Tobacco; Animation: Stop-motion
Downloads: 143,017
Average rating: (23 reviews) |  |
| Doctor in Industry (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Epic history of industrial medicine in the first half of the 20th century, showing how manufacturers and the medical profession came to terms with one another and culminating in GM's rehabilitation program for returned World War II veterans. Directed by Haford Kerbawy.
Keywords: Medicine: Industrial medicine; Medicine: Occupational health; World War II: Postwar issues
Downloads: 13,449,723
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| As We Like It
Beer promotional film. "Sparkling, golden, pure, refreshing, a beverage as old as history."
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 13,429
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| To New Horizons - Handy (Jam) Organization
Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the World's Fair, which looks ahead to the "wonder world of 1960."
Keywords: Futurism; World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Infrastructure: Roads and highways
Downloads: 51,138
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| American Look (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design.
Keywords: Design; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Futurism
Downloads: 57,056
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Young Man's Fancy (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Astonishing sitcom-style sponsored film encouraging increased consumption of electricity by an ever-increasing number of appliances. The plot pits a starry-eyed teenage girl against a geek whose main interests happen to be engineering and time study.
Keywords: Electricity; Gender roles; Houses and homes
Downloads: 23,862
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| How a Watch Works - Handy (Jam) Organization
A simple demonstration of the basic design and operation of a watch, including stop-motion animation showing a watch being assembled from many parts.
Keywords: Animation: Stop-motion; Timekeeping
Downloads: 43,829
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Detroit: City on the Move - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional film made for the City of Detroit, an unsuccessful bidder for the Olympic Games. With views of city highways, automobile manufacturing, a diverse population, and social activities, all shot prior to the city's economic decline.
Keywords: Detroit, Michigan; City planning; Race relations
Downloads: 69,322
Average rating:  (23 reviews) |  |
| Always Tomorrow
Dramatized history of the Coca-Cola company and some of the people who participated in its origin and growth. Made in the style of a feature film.
Downloads: 13,662
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Corvair in Action, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional film for the controversial Chevrolet Corvair.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 67,742
Average rating: (26 reviews) |  |
| Wonderful World - Handy (Jam) Organization
PA-2177 ìWonderful Worldî 08:01:14:28 - 08:45:06:23 Color Sound 1959 "Wonderful World" Broad documentary surveying global cultures, lifestyles, emphasizing common human activities, sponsored by Coca-Cola. Narrator: Ken Nordine. Parallels in European, American, Asian, South American, Caribbean lifestyles, leisure, hospitality, (racial stereotypes in narration.) Landmarks, history, sports, architecture, travel...
Downloads: 2,530 |  |
| Ride for Cinderella, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Cinderella relies on a Chevrolet to carry her home by midnight through obstacles and storms.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Folk tales; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 260,696
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Visit to Santa, A - Williams (Clem) Films
Santa Claus rides in a parade and walks kids through a relentless department-store Christmas display. Filmed in Pittsburgh.
Keywords: Christmas; Santa Claus; Consumerism
Downloads: 51,282
Average rating:  (49 reviews) |  |
| Olds Minute Movies [Futuramic 1948] - Handy (Jam) Organization
Theater advertisements for the first all-new automobile to be placed on the market after World War II, the Oldsmobile Futuramic.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Automobiles: Advertising; Design
Downloads: 16,623
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Bridging San Francisco Bay - Handy (Jam) Organization
Building the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Bridges; San Francisco: Infrastructure; Occupations: Ironworkers
Downloads: 29,761
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| American Look (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design.
Keywords: Design; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Futurism
Downloads: 37,776
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Leave It to Roll-Oh - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a promo showing how relays and switches function in the modern automobile. Shown at the New York World's Fair in 1940.
Keywords: Robotics; Gender roles; Futurism
Downloads: 30,377
Average rating: (15 reviews) |  |
| Consuming Women (Women as Consumers) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Strange, highly generalized portrait of the American woman consumer.
Keywords: Consumerism; Gender roles
Downloads: 23,599
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| All-American Soap Box Derby, The (1936) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tribute to the American boy as inventor, engineer and sportsman. Shows contestants building their vehicles and the final competition at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio.
Keywords: Car culture: Children; Gender roles; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 15,068
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Sound And The Story - Handy (Jam) Organization
RCA Victor presents Sound and the Story, copyright Radio Corporation of America
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Media: Phonograph; Perception: Sound
Downloads: 19,456
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| New Seven-Function Remote Control for Color - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotes an early version of the television remote control. We have the picture, but not the soundtrack of this film.
Keywords: Media: Television; Electronics; Technology
Downloads: 13,843
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Rochester: A City of Quality (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tour of the area, concentrating on redevelopment and economic activity.
Keywords: Urban renewal; Rochester, N.Y
Downloads: 12,165
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Back of the Mike - Handy (Jam) Organization
Insider's view of the 1930s radio studio showing the production of dramatic sound effects.
Keywords: Media: Radio; Perception: Sound
Downloads: 25,205
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Golden Years, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Bowling made respectable and appealing to middle-class Americans through modernization and "Populuxe" design.
Keywords: Recreation; Sports: Bowling; Families
Downloads: 331,804
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Conquering Roads - Handy (Jam) Organization
Highway engineering and development in the pre-Interstate era.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Land use; Civil engineering
Downloads: 10,532
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| We Drivers (1935 edition) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Early driving safety film showing good and bad sides of a driver's mind.
Keywords: Safety: Driving
Downloads: 19,246
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| American Thrift (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Expansive tribute to the "Woman American," her thrifty purchasing habits, and the American system of mass production.
Keywords: Consumerism; Gender roles; Families: 1960s
Downloads: 11,894
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Down the Gasoline Trail - Handy (Jam) Organization
Cartoon showing what happens to a drop of gasoline from the time it flows into the gas tank to when it is exploded in the engine cylinder. This "fantastic voyage" through a glisteningly clean Chevrolet engine is an excellent example of the soft-sell industrial, where the product that's promoted is hardly ever mentioned by name.
Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering; Oil industry; Animation: Advertising
Downloads: 34,483
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Young Man's Fancy (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Astonishing sitcom-style sponsored film encouraging increased consumption of electricity by an ever-increasing number of appliances. The plot pits a starry-eyed teenage girl against a geek whose main interests happen to be engineering and time study.
Keywords: Electricity; Gender roles; Houses and homes
Downloads: 14,066
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| How to Listen To... New Dimensions in Sound - Handy (Jam) Organization
Demonstration of the latest audio technology: stereo sound.
Keywords: Media: Phonograph; Music
Downloads: 20,222
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Roads to Romance: Coral Gables - Handy (Jam) Organization
Travelogue, made for theatrical showing, promoting tourism in Coral Gables, Florida. Shows colorful parrots, the University of Miami, and a visit to the beach.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Travelogues; Florida
Downloads: 12,216
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Living Stereo - Handy (Jam) Organization
Introducing stereophonic phonograph records.
Keywords: Media: Phonograph
Downloads: 55,696
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| American Harvest (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
This institutional film was designed to promote Chevrolet's corporate citizenship rather than any specific model of automobile. While it forcefully demonstrates how central automobile manufacturing is to the American economy, it even more strikingly shows the effects of the automobile upon our landscape. Bombastic narration is accompanied by excellent images of automobile manufacturing, the extraction and processing of raw materials from the earth, and mid-1950s consumerism...
Keywords: Manufacturing; Automobiles: Economic effects; Sustainability: 1950s
Downloads: 14,759
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| American Engineer (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tribute to engineers and their role in improving American life through technology.
Keywords: Engineering; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Manufacturing
Downloads: 13,768
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| At the End of the Rainbow (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsored film promoting ultraviolet light: its history, physics and health-giving properties.
Keywords: Medicine: Light therapy
Downloads: 13,982
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| At This Moment (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Importance of railroads to 1950s America. Directed by Haford Kerbawy.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 8,753
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Out of This World - Handy (Jam) Organization
Sales training film for duPont Film Division (cellophane), featuring an angel and devil monitoring the activities of bakery salesmen on earth, and explaining how packaging helps to sell food. In Kodachrome.
Keywords: Sales: Training; Heaven and hell; Food industry
Downloads: 16,461
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| Easy Does It - Handy (Jam) Organization
Measuring the effort involved in women's work around the home.
Keywords: Gender roles; Occupations: Housework; Time and motion study
Downloads: 15,532
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Released the same year as two other films with which it shares similarities: MODERN TIMES and TRIUMP...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 30,983
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Around the Corner - Handy (Jam) Organization
How the automobile differential allows a vehicle to turn a corner while keeping the wheels from skidding.
Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering; Physics; Motorcycles
Downloads: 45,312
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Peg-Leg Pedro - Handy (Jam) Organization
Chevrolet advertising cartoon in Technicolor on a "Treasure Island" theme.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Automobiles: Advertising; Pirates
Downloads: 26,377
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| American Thrift (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Expansive tribute to the "Woman American," her thrifty purchasing habits, and the American system of mass production.
Keywords: Consumerism; Gender roles; Families: 1960s
Downloads: 15,710
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Give Yourself the Green Light - Handy (Jam) Organization
Advocacy film produced to garner public support for the creation of the Interstate Highway System.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Car culture: General; Manifest destiny
Downloads: 16,570
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Operation Crossroads (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Documents Able Day and Baker Day blasts of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Island in the Pacific. Contains footage from many of the ground and aerial cameras set up to record the blasts, beginning with B-29 aircraft "Dave's Dream" dropping an atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Weapons; Marshall Islands; Pacific Ocean
Downloads: 29,103
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 12,973
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
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